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From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>, Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:02:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E703B10.1040403@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303130035.39823.schuerig@acm.org>



Michael Schuerig wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:13, Martin Weber wrote:
> 
> 
> I've been working on this kind of software for a couple of years and 
> can't say that I'm particularly attracted to it. To be sure, I 
> recognize that there are interesting aspects to it, but it's not what I 
> myself find interesting. Also, as I said before, I don't see that OCaml 
> provides a decisive advantage for *this* kind of software.

Actually, I must say that it does provide THE decisive 
advantage over all other tools I reviewed, at least in terms 
of Web applications. After developing the Xcaml sytem, which 
is currently on Sourceforge--and wanting a little bugfix 
update, coming up--my company is now able to release a new 
custom "enterprise application" to the customer in more or 
less one week's time.

The Xcaml system, which is basically nothing other than 
XML/HTML-embedded Ocaml, is giving us the edge to give our 
customers whatever they ask for the moment they ask for it.

I think that Ocaml is a little more than the "the tool of 
choice for the discriminating hacker": it's tool of choice 
for professional business software development, at least if 
your employees are endowed with a measure of cognitive 
abilities. It does take a little thinking to get the hang of 
Ocaml--and Xcaml equivalently--but not that much after all. 
Hey, it's an imperative language at the end!

Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-13  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-06 23:27 Graham Guttocks
2003-03-10 20:43 ` Paul Steckler
2003-03-10 23:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-03-11  0:18   ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-17 23:49   ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-11  1:43 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-11 10:23   ` Pierre Weis
2003-03-11 14:27     ` Guillaume Marceau
2003-03-11 16:16       ` David Brown
2003-03-11 16:47       ` [Caml-list] about -rectypes Christophe Raffalli
2003-03-12  2:32       ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-12  3:55         ` Cross-platform GUI (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) mgushee
2003-03-12 10:51         ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Alex Romadinoff
2003-03-12 18:24         ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-11 19:02     ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-12 17:12       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2003-03-12 18:08         ` Alwyn Goodloe
2003-03-12 22:34           ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-12 23:13             ` Martin Weber
2003-03-12 23:35               ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-13  8:02                 ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
2003-03-13 10:23                   ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-12 23:35             ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-12 23:18         ` Daniel Bünzli
2003-03-12 23:47           ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13  2:15         ` William Lovas
2003-03-13  3:44           ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-13  9:31           ` Richard W.M. Jones
     [not found]           ` <20030313095232.GC347@first.in-berlin.de>
2003-03-13 20:50             ` William Lovas
2003-03-13 21:17               ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13 22:01                 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13 22:17                 ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-14  6:33                 ` Michal Moskal
2003-03-14 11:50                   ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-14 15:38                     ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-14 10:13               ` MikhailFedotov
2003-03-14 10:30                 ` Johann Spies
2003-03-13  8:09       ` Pierre Weis
2003-03-15  1:43     ` Tushar Samant
2003-03-15  8:19       ` Andreas Eder
2003-03-11 16:26   ` Fred Yankowski
2003-03-11 19:47     ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!) mgushee
2003-03-12 11:23       ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-03-30  5:59         ` Belated thanks (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) Matt Gushee
2003-03-31 15:27           ` [Caml-list] Re: Belated thanks cashin
2003-04-01  8:22           ` Belated thanks (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) Johann Spies
2003-03-12 20:41       ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!) Max Kirillov
2003-03-13  2:36         ` Haskell-like syntax (was: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!)) Oleg
2003-03-13 18:33           ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 19:30             ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 19:47               ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 20:01               ` Seth Kurtzberg
2003-03-14 20:34                 ` brogoff
2003-03-14 21:17                   ` Sebastien Carlier
2003-03-14 21:51                     ` brogoff
2003-03-15  2:27                 ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-15 10:58                   ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-15 15:52                     ` [Caml-list] globally valid symbols (was: Haskell-like syntax) Max Kirillov
2003-03-15 20:16                     ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax David Brown
2003-03-16  5:28                     ` Module recursion (Was Re: [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax) brogoff
2003-03-16 11:10                       ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-16 18:02                         ` brogoff
2003-03-16 18:34                           ` Markus Mottl
     [not found]                     ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303152112560.27230-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-16  5:38                       ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-16 18:34                         ` brogoff
2003-03-17  2:20                           ` Jacques Garrigue
     [not found]                         ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303161020480.11736-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17  5:08                           ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17 17:06                             ` brogoff
2003-03-17 19:01                               ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
     [not found]                             ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303170836240.29039-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17 19:33                               ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17 20:28                                 ` brogoff
     [not found]                                 ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303171145500.29039-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17 21:09                                   ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-19  2:34                                 ` [Caml-list] ocamlopt speed (was Re: Module recursion) Chris Hecker
2003-03-19 10:03                                   ` Michal Moskal
2003-03-19 10:38                                     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-03-19 20:36                                   ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17  1:46                     ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-14 22:50               ` Oleg
2003-03-20 15:01                 ` Andreas Rossberg
2003-03-12 20:46       ` [Caml-list] Monads was OCaml popularity Christophe Raffalli
2003-03-13  0:03       ` [Caml-list] monads for dummies james woodyatt
2003-03-13  4:32         ` Christopher Quinn
2003-03-13 11:53         ` Christian Lindig
2003-03-12 18:59 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Martin Weber
2003-03-12 20:24   ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-13  8:57     ` [Caml-list] how to interface with integer Bigarrays using camlidl francois bereux
2003-03-13  9:36       ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-13  0:42   ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Graham Guttocks
2003-03-12 17:40 isaac gouy
2003-03-12 23:53 [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13  1:34 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Michael Schuerig
2003-03-13  7:09 Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 16:48 ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-03-13 21:29 ` Karl Zilles
2003-03-13 21:36   ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 21:42   ` Daniel M. Albro
     [not found]     ` <15985.1204.814698.939943@h00045a4799d6.ne.client2.attbi.com>
2003-03-14  5:49       ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-14  9:05         ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-03-14  9:13           ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 21:53   ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13 14:39 [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13 16:35 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Michael Schuerig
2003-03-14 22:14 Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-15 16:27 Oliver Bandel
2003-03-15 17:55 ` Sergey Goldgaber

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